Bauhaus Exhibition Poster — Joost Schmidt, 1923

Joost Schmidt’s poster for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar, the school’s first major public showing. This poster is a manifesto in miniature — the exact geometric-typographic language the Bauhaus would spread across the world for a century. A single stylized head-and-eye motif built entirely from circles, triangles, and the school’s own typeface. The school, designing its own introduction.

Maker

Joost Schmidt

Date

1923

Medium of the original

Exhibition poster

Original held by

Wikimedia Commons

Credit

Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons

Rights

Cleared for print

Catalogue number

PA-00894